The Harbinger of the Dystopia
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Hooters is gone. This isn't off the table.
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McDonald's specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.
Wheels within wheels within wheels...
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Being alive.
I will never recover from that. You have my begrudging admiration. If you need me, I'll be in the burn ward.
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The French branch puts some effort in it, usually they look like this
Going to a French McDonalds must be like going to a dietician, but they're just chain-smokimg throughout the appointment.
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Thanks! I might get a print. Those are cool.
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AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.
The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn't full of tourists because they didn't think that the railway station buffet was so good.
BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a "fast casual" crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I'm saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.
Can I have my fries tho you were holding them those last three paragraphs no keep talking tho this is interesting
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You may have a future in marketing.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]So mean how dare you!
... But if you're hiring I'm relatively cheap and hard working if somewhat stupid
Lol
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My generation was the best generation. I know a lot of people feel that way, but my generation was the only one that was correct.
Le right generation
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You have set me back financially by at least a month, but thank you.
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We used to have the only McDonald's (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They "modernised" it last year.
Some of that is from white balance making the top picture look warmer, but even accounting for that, it's a tragedy.
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You have set me back financially by at least a month, but thank you.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That is long enough for our plan
We will collapse the human empire by convincing the peasants within it to purchase art from artists until the economy becomes untirely imaginary (as all art is at least somewhat imaginary) and collapses.
CAWCAWCAWCAWCAW
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When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I'm mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don't know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
Discovery Zone, man. I actually feel bad for the kids that never got to experience Discovery Zone. Lasted for like 2 years. It apparently failed because they had a mountain of debt (all those plastic tubes are capital intensive buildouts) and adults had to sit around while their kids played.
I feel like if you made it work like a gym membership for your kids, and had something for adults to do off to the side, you might be able to make the numbers work.
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That is long enough for our plan
We will collapse the human empire by convincing the peasants within it to purchase art from artists until the economy becomes untirely imaginary (as all art is at least somewhat imaginary) and collapses.
CAWCAWCAWCAWCAW
Long live the Crowvelution!
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You're right. I just didn't feel like chopping the original meme and stitching it back together. I just made my little addition to the top. I guess that did make the post a little...shitty.
Yeah, I can get not wanting to spend the time/effort. Though, there is a difference between a shit post and a shitpost. People always conflate the two.
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Long live the Crowvelution!
That's SO Raven!
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.Hold on there's a McDonalds I remember going to, and I'm trying to think if it was in Scotland or England, but we stopped off there and the fucking place looked near enough like a villain's lair.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Inside the top one, you can hear screams regularly going like this:
No, please no, I don't wanna fucking die! No! Please no, you fucking fucking bastards! AAAAAH, IT HURTS, IT FUCKING HURTS! AAAAAAAAAHHH, MY ARMS, MY FUCKING ARMS, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS!
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
A new McDonald’s commercial has a burger stolen and the character shouts “it’s the hamburger thief”
Cultural erasure
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The 2000s was perfect
I prefer the 20s look
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Good thing they dont target children like in the past anymore tbh. The flag pole is dystopian af though
